Cheers to beer

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9:21 AM,
Jan. 23, 2013

Attendees at the first Asbury Park Beerfest in 2011.

Written by

Alex Biese
| @ABieseAPP

In case you haven't noticed, beer is a pretty big deal from your local dive bar to the Oval Office. In 2009, President Barack Obama held his famed "beer summit." In 2011, he knocked back a Guinness while meeting with local residents at Ollie Hayes pub in Moneygall, Ireland and in 2012, the White House released the recipes for two of its very own home brews, a honey ale and a honey porter.

It's safe to say that the recently re-inaugurated Commander in Chief would approve of the big event going down at the Jersey Shore on Saturday, Jan. 26: Asbury Park Beerfest, which will hold sold-out sessions from ...